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The next paragraph in that link I posted is:
If the district does not have any other school to which students can transfer, it is required to attempt to make arrangements with neighboring districts and is expected to make additional efforts to improve the services in the identified schools.
This is what is happening here. School of choice has kids flocking to neighboring districts. It tends to be the parents who are engaged and the kids who are successful who leave the school so the original district loses the kids who would succeed and their AYP drops even more. Most of the districts in my immediate area have only one high school. Even as schools are making cuts now, the superintendents and school boards are pretty much colluding so that they are cutting the same things to avoid further loss of students to the other districts. When they were talking about cutting AP classes at my kids' high school, I told them we'd just school of choice to the district closest to my house. Then that district contemplated the same exact cuts. Thankfully, neither district cut AP classes. Those cuts weren't related to students leaving due to school of choice though, just massive cuts in funding from the state.
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